When it comes to repository structure, my philosophy has always been that you should have as few files as possible with as little redundant information as possible, but all files that are in the repository should end up in the final tarball, and all content be identical to what ends up in the final tarball.

This is very different from Dist::Zilla, which has an extra config file and content that has POD with template content in it.

When you look after a few hundred modules, the less files you have to edit or save the better.

But I recognise this approach isn't for every…

With the increased number of module takeover requests I've been seeing in the second half of the year, I've been under increased pressure to put more serious efforts into moving my modules to GitHub.

Over the last few weeks I've been writing wrapper code around svn2git and doing some bulk conversion test runs on the 200 or so modules in my repository for which I am still the most recent distribution publisher.

After hand-labelling Git author emails for the 100ish users in my repository, the conversion process seems to run fairly well for modules which don't contain any branche…